Validation of TRMM Data in the Black Volta Basin of Ghana

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 647-654

  Adjei, Kwaku Amaning ^a,b   Ren, Liliang ^a   Appiah Adjei, Emmanual Kwame ^b   Kankam Yeboah, Kwabena ^c   Agyapong, Albert Anning ^c  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Ghana; Rainfall; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BILINEAR INTERPOLATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; GHANA; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL DATA; RAINGAUGE MEASUREMENTS; RESAMPLES; SITE-SPECIFIC; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UNGAUGED BASINS; VOLTA BASIN;

CATCHMENTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING;

RAIN;

GIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TRMM;

GHANA; MOUHOUN BASIN;

EID: 84860870281     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000487     Document Type: Article

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